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Nathaniel Johnson, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of North Dakota

Worried about the health effects of the sugar in your breakfast cereal? Little has changed since the days of ‘Unfrosted,’ the Pop-Tarts movie

Jerry Seinfeld, who wrote and directed "Unfrosted," poses next to a Pop-Tarts mascot at the Netflix film's premiere in Hollywood, Calif., in April 2024. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

While Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Schumer and Hugh Grant got top billing, sweet breakfast foods from the 1960s are arguably the real stars of the recent movie “Unfrosted,” a comedy loosely based on the invention of Pop-Tarts.

What’s more, many of those breakfast products from the movie are still household names. When I was a child, I too enjoyed some of the sugary cereals featured in “Unfrosted,” and I ate Pop-Tarts too.

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